Comments on: Fishing http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/ "But I don't want to go among mad people." says Alice to the Cat Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:51:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: silkreeling http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/#comment-4466 silkreeling Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:53:46 +0000 http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/#comment-4466 If i were to recommend to anyone the path to their taiji practice, it would probably be this. peace is cool. If i were to recommend to anyone the path to their taiji practice, it would probably be this.

peace is cool.

]]> By: chencenter http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/#comment-4465 chencenter Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:29:12 +0000 http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/#comment-4465 Sounds to me that you have a great practice. Yang Yang (my teacher) always reminds us to "pay attention to nurturing." It is everything outside of nurturing that hampers our practice. Keep it real. It sounds like you are. Peace. -Michael from the CCB Sounds to me that you have a great practice. Yang Yang (my teacher) always reminds us to “pay attention to nurturing.” It is everything outside of nurturing that hampers our practice. Keep it real. It sounds like you are. Peace. -Michael from the CCB

]]> By: taijiquestion http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/#comment-4462 taijiquestion Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:04:54 +0000 http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/#comment-4462 You won't be sorry, buddy! I'm not rabid on Vidal but that book is something special, especially for the dreamers and xenophiles among us. You get to meet the Buddha too. :) Kinda funny... standing exercises are what got me really excited about CMA. The fighting stuff was fun in theory but I don't enjoy fighting enough to make it an avocation. But when I learned about these unique forms of training I said whoa, something special is going on there. Internally, spiritually, and strangely enough, adventurously... You won’t be sorry, buddy! I’m not rabid on Vidal but that book is something special, especially for the dreamers and xenophiles among us. You get to meet the Buddha too. :)

Kinda funny… standing exercises are what got me really excited about CMA. The fighting stuff was fun in theory but I don’t enjoy fighting enough to make it an avocation. But when I learned about these unique forms of training I said whoa, something special is going on there. Internally, spiritually, and strangely enough, adventurously…

]]> By: wujimon http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/#comment-4460 wujimon Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:18:21 +0000 http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/#comment-4460 @GMR: I know, I know... at least I'm not a 'butt-tucking tree hugger' as I prefer to lengthen as opposed to tuck :) I think the key to the quote is about the inner helps to do the external exercise. @TJQ: Regardless of time on the journey, we all have something to share :) I don't believe I *really* started to get things until I started doing more zhan zhuang type work. It's sad to see this component missing in a lot of curriculums. Thx for the heads up on the book. I'll add it to my reading list :) @GMR:
I know, I know… at least I’m not a ‘butt-tucking tree hugger’ as I prefer to lengthen as opposed to tuck :) I think the key to the quote is about the inner helps to do the external exercise.

@TJQ:
Regardless of time on the journey, we all have something to share :) I don’t believe I *really* started to get things until I started doing more zhan zhuang type work. It’s sad to see this component missing in a lot of curriculums. Thx for the heads up on the book. I’ll add it to my reading list :)

]]> By: taijiquestion http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/#comment-4459 taijiquestion Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:21:51 +0000 http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/#comment-4459 You've been at this game a lot longer than I have, WM, but your post here made me recall that it was standing practice and stationery/meditational stance-work that got my foot in the door with CMA. Nice Thoreau quote! In the novel "Creation" by Gore Vidal, there's a beautiful passage where the main character, a Persian ambassador, watches Confucius fishing and shares in the sage's simple delight in his craft, nature, and the peaceful moment... You’ve been at this game a lot longer than I have, WM, but your post here made me recall that it was standing practice and stationery/meditational stance-work that got my foot in the door with CMA.

Nice Thoreau quote! In the novel “Creation” by Gore Vidal, there’s a beautiful passage where the main character, a Persian ambassador, watches Confucius fishing and shares in the sage’s simple delight in his craft, nature, and the peaceful moment…

]]> By: G. Michael Reynolds http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/#comment-4458 G. Michael Reynolds Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:20:54 +0000 http://wujimon.com/2008/04/17/fishing/#comment-4458 Qi hugger! ;) "A student should not stick to one style, nor should he be too fussy about one style...Rules are taught by teachers, but the essence is comprehended by the boxer himself. Rather he should seek to get to the origin of boxing. The inner helps you do the external exercise...The profundity of boxing appears beyond our reach, but the Zhong Yong says the Dao is not far from you. If you try, you can reach it." -Li Gui Yuan- Qi hugger! ;)

“A student should not stick to one style, nor should he be too fussy about one style…Rules are taught by teachers, but the essence is comprehended by the boxer himself. Rather he should seek to get to the origin of boxing. The inner helps you do the external exercise…The profundity of boxing appears beyond our reach, but the Zhong Yong says the Dao is not far from you. If you try, you can reach it.”

-Li Gui Yuan-

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